Investigation of golden speakers for second language learners from imitation preference perspective by voice modification

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-184

  Wang, Ruili ^a,b   Lu, Jingli ^a,b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computer assisted language learning (CALL); Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT); Pitch; Speech rate; Voice modification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; COMPUTER-ASSISTED PRONUNCIATION TRAINING (CAPT); PITCH; SPEECH RATE; VOICE MODIFICATION;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; LINGUISTICS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649516493     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.08.015     Document Type: Article

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